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In 1999, having served 15 years as Composer in Residence to Shady Grove Church of Grand Prairie, Texas, award-winning composer and conductor David R. Holsinger (b 1945) relocated to Cleveland, Tenn., where he teaches conducting and composition, as well as serves as conductor of the Wind Ensemble at Lee University.Holsinger's compositions have won four national competitions, including a two-time American Band Association Ostwald Award. His works have also been finalists in the National Band Association and Sudler competitions. Educated at Central Methodist University, Fayette, Missouri, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, and the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Holsinger was also honored with an honorary Doctorate and the Gustavus Fine Arts Medallion from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. In the summer of 1998, during the Texas Bandmasters' Association convention in San Antonio, the United States Air Force Band of the West featured Holsinger as the HERITAGE VI composer. This prestigious series celebrating American wind composers was founded in 1992, and had previously honored Morton Gould, Ron Nelson, Robert Jager, W. Francis McBeth, and Roger Nixon. An elected member of the American Bandmasters Association, Holsinger's recent honors include Women Band Directors International's Al G. Wright Award, the Christian Instrumental Directors Association Director of the Year Citation, the 2011 Phi Beta Mu Outstanding Bandmaster of the Year Award, and biographical inclusion in both The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music, Vol. I and III, and Norman Smith's Program Notes for Band.In July of 2012, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity inducted Holsinger into the distinguished Alpha Alpha Chapter at its national convention in Orlando. Holsinger, who originally was inducted into Beta Mu Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha in the spring of 1964, was also presented with the Signature Sinfonian Medal, one of the fraternity's highest honors.In April of 2003, Holsinger was presented the Distinguished Alumni Award from Central Methodist University, and the following month, at Graduation Ceremonies, Dr. Paul Conn, president of Lee University, presented the composer with the university's prestigious "Excellence in Scholarship" faculty award for his continued achievement in musical composition.During the past 12 years, Holsinger has served as visiting Composer in Residence at 11 American colleges and universities, and held the Acuff Chair of Excellence in the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn. Holsinger recently contributed a chapter for the GIA Publication "Composers on Composing for Band," edited by Mark Camphouse. This book features insights on musical creativity by 11 American band composers.In addition to his university duties, Holsinger spends much of his energies as a guest composer and conductor with All-State organizations, professional bands, and university ensembles throughout the United States. When not composing or conducting, he "plays" with model trains.More information, including a printable list of Holsinger's compositions, can be found on the Internet at David Holsinger's website.
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Decision : 36 COM 8B.58
Cultural Properties - Examination of minor boundary modifications - Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor (Montenegro)
The World Heritage Committee,
- Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B.Add and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1.Add,
- Refers the examination of the proposed minor modification to the boundary of the Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor, Montenegro, back to the State Party in order to allow it to provide justification and detailed information on the proposed variations to the original 1979 property boundary;
- Approves the proposed buffer zone for the Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor, Montenegro;
- Recommends that the State Party establish as soon as possible a coordination of the Management Plan with the municipal urban planning documents to include controls applicable to development and infrastructure within the buffer zone. Such controls on development and infrastructure need to recognise the components necessary to the visual integrity of the property, including vistas and visual accents, horizontal and vertical relationships, materials and form of new construction, and must be integrated with the individual municipal plans in order to ensure the protection of the Outstanding Universal Value of the property.
Context of DecisionWHC-12/36.COM/8B.Add
Decision Code: 36 COM 8B.58
Themes: Inscriptions on the World Heritage List
States Parties (1): Montenegro
Properties (1): Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor
Year: 2012
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Fewer falling behind on mortgages
Interest rate cuts have pushed the number of people falling behind in their home loan repayments to the lowest level in more than 12 months.
The percentage of residential mortgage loans more than 30 days in arrears fell to 1.35 per cent in the September quarter, ratings agency Standard & Poor's said in its latest RMBS Performance Watch report.
The result was down from 1.5 per cent in the previous quarter and the lowest level since October 2011, the report said.
"This suggests the progressive lowering of interest rates during the past year is taking effect," S&P said in a statement.
In 2012, the Reserve Bank of Australia delivered 125 basis points of interest rate relief for borrowers, sending the cash rate to 3 per cent - its lowest level since the height of the global financial crisis in 2009.
Some economists were forecasting further cuts in 2013, which should bring further easing in borrowing rates even though Australia's banks have not been passing on the RBA moves in full.
On a state-by-state basis, the S&P report found Queensland had 1.63 per cent of loans behind in their repayments by more than 30 days, the highest level in the country.
Although this was down from 1.82 per cent in the previous quarter, the report warned that recent moves from the Queensland Ggovernment to slash public sector jobs and the slowdown in mining investment in the State could affect arrears.
Next highest was Western Australia at 1.6 per cent and Tasmania at 1.58 per cent.
In terms of specific suburbs, the Nelson Bay area north of Newcastle in NSW, had the highest arrears of all Australian postcodes.
S&P said Australia's economic outlook "bodes well for a stable housing-loan market" in 2013.
"This is particularly the case because the demand for housing remains unmet by the supply of available housing stock," the report said.
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Achieving The American Dream Of Homeownership
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Advantages & Disadvantages of Owning A Home
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Starting The VA Mortgage Process
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VA Loan Eligibility
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Michael Bradley was bad but maybe that isnt his fault
BRIAN SCIARETTA - Wednesday, June 13, 2012
The United States played to a disappointing 1-1 draw against Guatemala in a World Cup qualifier which concluded a five game series of games.
The US began these games with a terrific performance against Scotland in a 5-1 win. Since then, however, their performances have been mostly mediocre. In large part, their offense was unable to create many opportunities and the team only played well in brief stretches. It is clear the team needs consistency.
But those are broad terms. Here are the specific areas of concern that need to be addressed by Jurgen Klinsmann going forward.
Central midfield trio of Bradley, Edu, and Jones
Against Guatemala, Klinsmann elected to start three central midfielders in Michael Bradley, Jermaine Jones, and Maurice Edu.
It is very clear that all three are solid players and have impressive club resumes. That being said, these three do not work well together and they do not play up to the sum of their parts. They all play similar roles and neither of the three are possession oriented players.
With these three players, the US looks sharp defensively in central midfield but when they move into the attack, they seem out of ideas in the final third.
The US needs better passing out of the central midfield and that likely means that one of these three will need to sit in favor of an attacking minded player or a winger. It remains to be seen who would fill this void. Jose Torres is a good player but he prefers to sit deep. It is uncertain whether or not Stuart Holden will recover from his injury and Joe Corona is still untested.
Either way, the best thing would be for the US to use any friendlies or meaningless qualifiers (after qualification to the "Hex" is secure) to try more options instead of trying to work with the existing trio.
Lack of wide players is a major problem
Perhaps the most significant problem facing the US team right now is the lack of wide attacking options.
Fabian Johnson's return from injury was a welcome surprise against Guatemala and he assisted on the US team's only goal. Still, that's not enough. With Landon Donovan having an off night, the US was forced to go down the middle and this was easy to defend.
This was very similar to the problems the US U-23 team faced in its failed bid to qualify for the 2012 Olympics. Brek Shea had an off week and as a result, there was nothing the US could do out wide. Opponents were easily able to defend the middle.
With this senior US team, everything has to go down the middle and when that responsibility lies with the trio of Bradley, Edu, and Jones, it is unlikely to be effective.
To Klinsmann's credit, he has tried Robbie Rogers and Brek Shea out wide and neither were that effective. Still, Shea is showing signs that he is breaking out of a slump with FC Dallas and that would be very welcome news for the US team. Shea still has a lot to learn but being able to play wide is a very valuable asset.
Fabian Johnson
Fabian Johnson has been a revelation to the US team since deciding to file his one-time switch and leave the German program for the US national team.
As a left back, he has been terrific for both Hoffenheim and the United States. That position has been the Achilles Heel of the US national team and Johnson maybe the fix for that seemingly constant problem.
Despite that, Johnson is far more needed in the midfield because he addresses so many weaknesses there.
The first is that he is primarily offensive minded. He was terrific setting up Clint Dempsey's goal but he also was caught out of position on defense. If he moves to the midfield, he can focus on his strengths in moving forward.
The second is that he is a great wide option and that is an area the team lacks. He is naturally right footed but is also very strong with his left. As a result, he can play either wing. He can also pinch into the middle and play an attacking position centrally.
Johnson is so valuable because he gives the US team so much of what they are lacking: left back, wings, or creativity in the middle. With Aston Villa's Eric Lichaj also a capable left back, Klinsmann should get Johnson into the midfield to fix the problems there.
Distribution from central defenders
This has been a problem for the US team for awhile and that appears to still be the case.
Right now, the passing from the central defense is significantly hurting the US possession game. As it stands now, the US central defense far too frequently boots the ball upfield when under pressure. This often concedes possession back to the opponents. Also as a result, the midfield has to play further back closer to the defense.
Geoff Cameron has shown promise in improving the backline's ball handling and this is also a strength for Tim Ream. Clarence Goodson is still a good player but he struggled at times with Brondby this season and he will be 32 by the next World Cup.
Carlos Bocanegra and Oguchi Onyewu have occupied starting spots in the back for years but it is important to gradually move towards defenders who can move the ball forward effectively.
Bocanegra is still the leader of the US team but it is important to integrate over time a new style of central defense with players who are focused on playing the ball. For too long the American focus of this position has been on physical players who are "hard men." That aspect of the game is useful at times but without sharp passing, it can hurt the offense as well.
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Sunday June 17, 2012 9:40 pm
Stop talking about Chandler. He sucks anyway
Sunday June 17, 2012 9:37 pm
What we've learned from these matches is...
1) Boca, Gooch, Dolo are showing their age and shouldn't be considered locks anymore. Of the 3 Boca has looked the best and should still be used until another CB option is found. We need Ream, Hines, Cameron, and Gonzalez to step up and show that they want to be starting CB's for the USNT. I'm still hoping Chandler will play for the US. He should be called in for the next friendly/qualifiers. If he doesn't accept so be it. Either way Chandler or Lichaj should be given the starting RB spot, with Dolo as their backup.
2) Wingers/Attacking minded players are needed. Jones, Bradley and Edu can get the job done defensively, but they often lack something in the attacking 3rd. If Holden returns at his previous level he should replace Edu (Dropping Jones into the CDM spot). I also expect that Bedoya, Adu, and Williams to push for inclusion.
3) Donovan shouldn't be considered a lock anymore. Gatt, Gyau, and Corona need to push Donovan to perform every time.
Saturday June 16, 2012 12:00 am
Fabian was a LB for Hoffenheim starting at the beginning of Feb. So he was there Feb, March, April, and half of May. He missed a few weeks with injury so that is roughtly 3 months.
Do you realize that in the first half of the season when Fabian Johnson was playing in the midfield, he was second in the Bundesliga in assists?
Fabian is a good left back, but US fans shouldn't kid themselves in thinking that is the best place for him. He is an elite midfielder. And with the US team struggling to create goals, getting Fabian involved at his best position is a step in the right direction.
Friday June 15, 2012 9:00 pm
Two things I disagree with. (1) Michael Bradley doesn't need to be lumped in with Jones, and especially Edu. Bradley is 10x the player of Edu in both a holding role, and in the attacking 1/3rd. Bradley is and has been the best MF for the US for quite some time. (2) Moving Fabian Johnson to MF. I would rather see JK try out some of the youth at winger before moving Johnson up there. That said however, I wouldn't be against it one bit :).
I would REALLY love to see Geoff Cameron and Tim Ream play together.
Friday June 15, 2012 1:47 pm
I agree totally with Girt. Our current midfield stinks. Look no further than our performances against two "minnows" in qualifying. Replacing Edu with Johnson will give us the skill, speed, possesion and goals we sorely need in the final third. Lichaj has proven himself to be a solid LB in the Premier League and is better defensively than Johnson (a true midfielder). These moves only make us better as a team. Based on what we've seen, the status quo is totally unacceptable!
Friday June 15, 2012 1:31 pm
Surprised most folks keep missing Danny Williams. Once he gets back, I see him replacing Edu in the midfield upside-down triangle.
Friday June 15, 2012 12:20 am
Actually no. Johnson played LB from December until the end of the season. Not 3 months more like 5 1/2 months due to Germany's winter break. I will say it again Lichaj at RB. We have finally found a player to really lock down a very troubled spot for the U.S. for years, and now we should move him. No. We have plenty of Wingers/Attacking middies. There is no need to move Johnson from LB. Considering he will be playing LB for Hoffenheim.
Thursday June 14, 2012 11:23 am
Fabian Johnson is a good left back but it is not his top position. He is naturally a midfielder and played there the entire first half of the Bundesliga season - he only moved to LB the last three months
In Johnson's career in Germany, he has played far more in the midfield than left back.
While a good left back, he would be a boost to the US midfield. He would give the team a different type of attacking player.
Lichaj can help out at left back. Eric can get forward and is much better defensively than Johnson. With Lichaj the better defender and Johnson the better attacker, it's better to let the players play to their strenghts.
Thursday June 14, 2012 10:16 am
Johnson needs to stay at LB. You guys have been pushign for him to be a Left Winger for awhile, but he has played far more LB for club then winger.
Go look at Shea's stats under Klinsmann at LW. He has created 7 chances for himself and 9 chances for other's in the attacking third. Thats not ineffective as some of you seem to think.
Lichaj should be groomed to take RB not LB.
It's time to hand over the RCB spot to Cameron.
How many times are we going to read or hear Donovan had an off night before fans finally come to the realization that he is not the same Donovan of old.
The Mexico friendly will be a good game to bring in new players i.e Gatt, Adu, Pontius, Myers etc......
And people need to realise that Chandler is not going to play for the U.S.
Wednesday June 13, 2012 8:12 pm
Your comments are dead-on! Do you think Jurgen Klinsmann is smart enough to see this as well???
I have believed strongly that three defensive midfielders and a single, stranded forward is a highly dysfunctional set up. The results have proven that out.
Fabian Johnson's best position is still midfield despite his excellent play at LB. I'd like to see Lichaj and Chandler be our fullbacks for the hexagonal (if we make it). I don't think Steve Cherundolo will be able to carry the full load by 2014. With Brazil still two years away, I'd like to see more of Corona, Gatt and Shea. I'd like to see less of Jose Torres.
With his tremendous energy and work rate, I would also like to see Hurculez Gomez get a shot at right wing if he can't beat out Altidore and Dempsey for starting forward spots. Gomez is a dangerous player!
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Fish Kebab
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Haddock or Salmon steak, cut in 16 piece chunks
1 white onion, divided into 8-10 pieces
1/2 red bell pepper, cut in medium sized chunks
1/2 green bell pepper, cut in medium sized chunks
8 cherry tomatoes
50 ml vinegar
50 ml extra virgin olive oil
Arrange the fish, red pepper, green pepper, onion and tomatoes in order on the skewers*. Make 2 skewers for 1 serving. Whisk marinade ingredients in a large shallow plate. Place the skewers in it and allow them to marinate for 1 hour in the fridge and make sure to turn the skewers over from time to time. Let it sit at room temperature for 15 minutes before cooking.
Preheat your barbecue or oven (grill). Place the skewers on the rack. Make sure to turn the skewers frequently so that all sides of the fish are cooked equally for a total of 10 minutes. Every time you turn the skewers, brush the fish and vegetables with marinade.
Place them on a plate and sprinkle some oregano all over. Serve Fish Kebab with lemon wedges, black olives and pide (pita) slices.
Makes 2 servings.
* If you're using wooden skewers, soak in water for about 1/2 hour to prevent them from burning.
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An address is the name of a message target or message source. [2] The methods that create senders and receivers require an address. The details of sending to a particular target or receiving from a particular source are then handled by the sender or receiver. A different target or source can be used simply by using a different address.
An address resolves to a node. The Qpid Messaging API recognises two kinds of nodes, queues and topics [3]. A queue stores each message until it has been received and acknowledged, and only one receiver can receive a given message [4]. A topic immediately delivers a message to all eligible receivers; if there are no eligible receivers, it discards the message. In the AMQP 0-10 implementation of the API, [5] queues map to AMQP queues, and topics map to AMQP exchanges. [6]
In the rest of this tutorial, we present many examples using two programs that take an address as a command line parameter. spout sends messages to the target address, drain receives messages from the source address. The source code is available in C++, Python, and .NET C# and can be found in the examples directory for each language. These programs can use any address string as a source or a destination, and have many command line options to configure behavior—use the -h option for documentation on these options. [7] The examples in this tutorial also use the qpid-config utility to configure AMQP 0-10 queues and exchanges on a Qpid broker.
Example 1.4. Queues
Create a queue with qpid-config, send a message using spout, and read it using drain:
$ qpid-config add queue hello-world $ ./spout hello-world $ ./drain hello-world Message(properties={spout-id:c877e622-d57b-4df2-bf3e-6014c68da0ea:0}, content='')
The queue stored the message sent by spout and delivered it to drain when requested.
Once the message has been delivered and and acknowledged by drain, it is no longer available on the queue. If we run drain one more time, no messages will be retrieved.
$ ./drain hello-world $
Example 1.5. Topics
This example is similar to the previous example, but it uses a topic instead of a queue.
First, use qpid-config to remove the queue and create an exchange with the same name:
$ qpid-config del queue hello-world $ qpid-config add exchange topic hello-world
Now run drain and spout the same way we did in the previous example:
$ ./spout hello-world $ ./drain hello-world $
Topics deliver messages immediately to any interested receiver, and do not store messages. Because there were no receivers at the time spout sent the message, it was simply discarded. When we ran drain, there were no messages to receive.
Now let's run drain first, using the
-t option to specify a timeout in seconds.
While drain is waiting for messages,
run spout in another window.
First Window:
$ ./drain -t 30 hello-word
Second Window:
$ ./spout hello-word
Once spout has sent a message, return to the first window to see the output from drain:
Message(properties={spout-id:7da2d27d-93e6-4803-8a61-536d87b8d93f:0}, content='')
You can run drain in several separate windows; each creates a subscription for the exchange, and each receives all messages sent to the exchange.
So far, our examples have used address strings that contain only the name of a node. An address string can also contain a subject and options.
The syntax for an address string is:
address_string ::= <address> [ / <subject> ] [ ; <options> ] options ::= { <key> : <value>, ... }
Addresses, subjects, and keys are strings. Values can be numbers, strings (with optional single or double quotes), maps, or lists. A complete BNF for address strings appears in Section 1.4.4, "Address String Grammar".
So far, the address strings in this tutorial have only used simple names. The following sections show how to use subjects and options.
Every message has a property called subject, which is analogous to the subject on an email message. If no subject is specified, the message's subject is null. For convenience, address strings also allow a subject. If a sender's address contains a subject, it is used as the default subject for the messages it sends. If a receiver's address contains a subject, it is used to select only messages that match the subject—the matching algorithm depends on the message source.
In AMQP 0-10, each exchange type has its own matching algorithm. This is discussed in Section 1.16, "The AMQP 0-10 mapping".
Currently, a receiver bound to a queue ignores subjects, receiving messages from the queue without filtering. Support for subject filtering on queues will be implemented soon.
Example 1.6. Using subjects
In this example we show how subjects affect message flow.
First, let's use qpid-config to create a topic exchange.
$ qpid-config add exchange topic news-service
Now we use drain to receive messages from
news-service that match the subject
First Window:
$ ./drain -t 30 news-service/sports
In a second window, let's send messages to
news-service using two different subjects:
Second Window:
$ ./spout news-service/sports $ ./spout news-service/news
Now look at the first window, the message with the
sports has been received, but not
the message with the subject
Message(properties={qpid.subject:sports, spout-id:9441674e-a157-4780-a78e-f7ccea998291:0}, content='')
If you run drain in multiple windows using the same subject, all instances of drain receive the messages for that subject.
The AMQP exchange type we are using here,
amq.topic, can also do more sophisticated
A sender's subject can contain multiple words separated by a
"." delimiter. For instance, in a news
application, the sender might use subjects like
europe.news, or
The receiver's subject can include wildcard characters—
"#" matches one or more words in the message's
subject, "*" matches a single word.
For instance, if the subject in the source address is
*.news, it matches messages with the
europe.news or
usa.news; if it is
europe.#, it matches messages with subjects
europe.news or
Example 1.7. Subjects with multi-word keys
This example uses drain and spout to demonstrate the use of subjects with two-word keys.
Let's use drain with the subject
*.news to listen for messages in which
the second word of the key is
First Window:
$ ./drain -t 30 news-service/*.news
Now let's send messages using several different two-word keys:
Second Window:
$ ./spout news-service/usa.news $ ./spout news-service/usa.sports $ ./spout news-service/europe.sports $ ./spout news-service/europe.news
In the first window, the messages with
news in the second word of the key have
been received:
Message(properties={qpid.subject:usa.news, spout-id:73fc8058-5af6-407c-9166-b49a9076097a:0}, content='') Message(properties={qpid.subject:europe.news, spout-id:f72815aa-7be4-4944-99fd-c64c9747a876:0}, content='')
Next, let's use drain with the
#.news to match any sequence of
words that ends with
First Window:
$ ./drain -t 30 news-service/#.news
In the second window, let's send messages using a variety of different multi-word keys:
Second Window:
$ ./spout news-service/news $ ./spout news-service/sports $ ./spout news-service/usa.news $ ./spout news-service/usa.sports $ ./spout news-service/usa.faux.news $ ./spout news-service/usa.faux.sports
In the first window, messages with
news in the last word of the key have been
Message(properties={qpid.subject:news, spout-id:cbd42b0f-c87b-4088-8206-26d7627c9640:0}, content='') Message(properties={qpid.subject:usa.news, spout-id:234a78d7-daeb-4826-90e1-1c6540781eac:0}, content='') Message(properties={qpid.subject:usa.faux.news, spout-id:6029430a-cfcb-4700-8e9b-cbe4a81fca5f:0}, content='')
The options in an address string can contain additional information for the senders or receivers created for it, including:
Policies for assertions about the node to which an address refers.
For instance, in the address string
{assert: always, node:{ type: queue }}, the node
my-queue must be a queue; if not,
the address does not resolve to a node, and an exception
is raised.
Policies for automatically creating or deleting the node to which an address refers.
For instance, in the address string
xoxox ; {create: always},
the queue
xoxox is created, if it does
not exist, before the address is resolved.
Extension points that can be used for sender/receiver configuration.
For instance, if the address for a receiver is
my-queue; {mode: browse}, the receiver
works in
browse mode, leaving messages
on the queue so other receivers can receive them.
Extension points providing more direct control over the underlying protocol.
For instance, the
x-bindings property
allows greater control over the AMQP 0-10 binding process
when an address is resolved.
Let's use some examples to show how these different kinds of address string options affect the behavior of senders and receives.
In this section, we use the
assert option
to ensure that the address resolves to a node of the required
Example 1.8. Assertions on Nodes
Let's use qpid-config to create a queue and a topic.
$ qpid-config add queue my-queue $ qpid-config add exchange topic my-topic
We can now use the address specified to drain to assert that it is of a particular type:
$ ./drain 'my-queue; {assert: always, node:{ type: queue }}' $ ./drain 'my-queue; {assert: always, node:{ type: topic }}' 2010-04-20 17:30:46 warning Exception received from broker: not-found: not-found: Exchange not found: my-queue (../../src/qpid/broker/ExchangeRegistry.cpp:92) [caused by 2 \x07:\x01] Exchange my-queue does not exist
The first attempt passed without error as my-queue is indeed a queue. The second attempt however failed; my-queue is not a topic.
We can do the same thing for my-topic:
$ ./drain 'my-topic; {assert: always, node:{ type: topic }}' $ ./drain 'my-topic; {assert: always, node:{ type: queue }}' 2010-04-20 17:31:01 warning Exception received from broker: not-found: not-found: Queue not found: my-topic (../../src/qpid/broker/SessionAdapter.cpp:754) [caused by 1 \x08:\x01] Queue my-topic does not exist
Now let's use the
create option to
create the queue
xoxox if it does not already
In previous examples, we created the queue before
listening for messages on it. Using
always, the queue is automatically created if it
does not exist.
Example 1.9. Creating a Queue Automatically
First Window:
$ ./drain -t 30 "xoxox ; {create: always}"
Now we can send messages to this queue:
Second Window:
$ ./spout "xoxox ; {create: always}"
Returning to the first window, we see that drain has received this message:
Message(properties={spout-id:1a1a3842-1a8b-4f88-8940-b4096e615a7d:0}, content='')
The details of the node thus created can be controlled by further options within the node. See Table 1.2, "Node Properties" for details.
Some options specify message transfer semantics; for
instance, they may state whether messages should be consumed or
read in browsing mode, or specify reliability
characteristics. The following example uses the
browse option to receive messages without
removing them from a queue.
Example 1.10. Browsing a Queue
Let's use the browse mode to receive messages without removing them from the queue. First we send three messages to the queue:
$ ./spout my-queue --content one $ ./spout my-queue --content two $ ./spout my-queue --content three
Now we use drain to get those messages, using the browse option:
$ ./drain 'my-queue; {mode: browse}' Message(properties={spout-id:fbb93f30-0e82-4b6d-8c1d-be60eb132530:0}, content='one') Message(properties={spout-id:ab9e7c31-19b0-4455-8976-34abe83edc5f:0}, content='two') Message(properties={spout-id:ea75d64d-ea37-47f9-96a9-d38e01c97925:0}, content='three')
We can confirm the messages are still on the queue by repeating the drain:
$ ./drain 'my-queue; {mode: browse}' Message(properties={spout-id:fbb93f30-0e82-4b6d-8c1d-be60eb132530:0}, content='one') Message(properties={spout-id:ab9e7c31-19b0-4455-8976-34abe83edc5f:0}, content='two') Message(properties={spout-id:ea75d64d-ea37-47f9-96a9-d38e01c97925:0}, content='three')
Greater control over the AMQP 0-10 binding process can
be achieved by including an
option in an address string.
For instance, the XML Exchange is an AMQP 0-10 custom exchange
provided by the Apache Qpid C++ broker. It allows messages to
be filtered using XQuery; queries can address either message
properties or XML content in the body of the message. The
xquery is specified in the arguments field of the AMQP 0-10
command. When using the messaging API an xquery can be
specified in and address that resolves to an XML exchange by
using the x-bindings property.
An instance of the XML Exchange must be added before it can be used:
$ qpid-config add exchange xml xml
When using the XML Exchange, a receiver provides an
XQuery as an x-binding argument. If the query contains a
context item (a path starting with "."), then it
is applied to the content of the message, which must be
well-formed XML. For instance,
./weather is
a valid XQuery, which matches any message in which the root
element is named
weather. Here is an
address string that contains this query:
xml; { link: { x-bindings: [{exchange:xml, key:weather, arguments:{xquery:"./weather"} }] } }
When using longer queries with drain, it is often useful to place the query in a file, and use cat in the command line. We do this in the following example.
Example 1.11. Using the XML Exchange
This example uses an x-binding that contains queries, which filter based on the content of XML messages. Here is an XQuery that we will use in this example:
let $w := ./weather return $w/station = 'Raleigh-Durham International Airport (KRDU)' and $w/temperature_f > 50 and $w/temperature_f - $w/dewpoint > 5 and $w/wind_speed_mph > 7 and $w/wind_speed_mph < 20
We can specify this query in an x-binding to listen to messages that meet the criteria specified by the query:
First Window:
$ ./drain -f "xml; {link:{x-bindings:[{key:'weather', arguments:{xquery:\"$(cat rdu.xquery )\"}}]}}"
In another window, let's create an XML message that meets the criteria in the query, and place it in the file
<weather> <station>Raleigh-Durham International Airport (KRDU)</station> <wind_speed_mph>16</wind_speed_mph> <temperature_f>70</temperature_f> <dewpoint>35</dewpoint> </weather>
Now let's use spout to send this message to the XML exchange:
Second Window:
spout --content "$(cat rdu.xml)" xml/weather
Returning to the first window, we see that the message has been received:
$ ./drain -f "xml; {link:{x-bindings:[{exchange:'xml', key:'weather', arguments:{xquery:\"$(cat rdu.xquery )\"}}]}}" Message(properties={qpid.subject:weather, spout-id:31c431de-593f-4bec-a3dd-29717bd945d3:0}, content='<weather> <station>Raleigh-Durham International Airport (KRDU)</station> <wind_speed_mph>16</wind_speed_mph> <temperature_f>40</temperature_f> <dewpoint>35</dewpoint> </weather>')
Table 1.1. Address String Options
|one of: always, never, sender or receiver
|Asserts that the properties specified in the node option match whatever the address resolves to. If they do not, resolution fails and an exception is raised.
|one of: always, never, sender or receiver
|Creates the node to which an address refers if it does not exist. No error is raised if the node does exist. The details of the node may be specified in the node option.
|one of: always, never, sender or receiver
|Delete the node when the sender or receiver is closed.
|A nested map containing the entries shown in Table 1.2, "Node Properties".
|Specifies properties of the node to which the address refers. These are used in conjunction with the assert or create options.
|A nested map containing the entries shown in Table 1.3, "Link Properties".
|Used to control the establishment of a conceptual link from the client application to or from the target/source address.
|one of: browse, consume
|This option is only of relevance for source addresses that resolve to a queue. If browse is specified the messages delivered to the receiver are left on the queue rather than being removed. If consume is specified the normal behaviour applies; messages are removed from the queue once the client acknowledges their receipt.
Table 1.2. Node Properties
|topic, queue
|Indicates the type of the node.
|True, False
|Indicates whether the node survives a loss of volatile storage e.g. if the broker is restarted.
|A nested map whose values correspond to the valid fields on an AMQP 0-10 queue-declare or exchange-declare command.
|These values are used to fine tune the creation or assertion process. Note however that they are protocol specific.
A nested list in which each binding is represented by
a map. The entries of the map for a binding contain
the fields that describe an AMQP 0-10 binding. Here is
the format for x-bindings:
[ { exchange: <exchange>, queue: <queue>, key: <key>, arguments: { <key_1>: <value_1>, ..., <key_n>: <value_n> } }, ... ]
|In conjunction with the create option, each of these bindings is established as the address is resolved. In conjunction with the assert option, the existence of each of these bindings is verified during resolution. Again, these are protocol specific.
Table 1.3. Link Properties
|one of: unreliable, at-least-once, at-most-once, exactly-once
Reliability indicates the level of reliability that
the sender or receiver.
at-most-once are currently
treated as synonyms, and allow messages to be lost if
a broker crashes or the connection to a broker is
at-least-once guarantees that
a message is not lost, but duplicates may be
exactly-once guarantees
that a message is not lost, and is delivered precisely
once. Currently only
at-least-once are supported.
|True, False
|Indicates whether the link survives a loss of volatile storage e.g. if the broker is restarted.
|A nested map whose values correspond to the valid fields of an AMQP 0-10 queue-declare command.
|These values can be used to customise the subscription queue in the case of receiving from an exchange. Note however that they are protocol specific.
|A nested map whose values correspond to the valid fields of an AMQP 0-10 message-subscribe command.
|These values can be used to customise the subscription.
|A nested list each of whose entries is a map that may contain fields (queue, exchange, key and arguments) describing an AMQP 0-10 binding.
|These bindings are established during resolution independent of the create option. They are considered logically part of the linking process rather than of node creation.
[a] If at-most-once is requested, unreliable will be used and for durable messages on durable queues there is the possibility that messages will be redelivered; if exactly-once is requested, at-least-once will be used and the application needs to be able to deal with duplicates.
This section provides a formal grammar for address strings.
Tokens. The following regular expressions define the tokens used to parse address strings:
LBRACE: \\{ RBRACE: \\} LBRACK: \\[ RBRACK: \\] COLON: : SEMI: ; SLASH: / COMMA: , NUMBER: [+-]?[0-9]*\\.?[0-9]+ ID: [a-zA-Z_](?:[a-zA-Z0-9_-]*[a-zA-Z0-9_])? STRING: "(?:[^\\\\"]|\\\\.)*"|\'(?:[^\\\\\']|\\\\.)*\' ESC: \\\\[^ux]|\\\\x[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]|\\\\u[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F] SYM: [.#*%@$^!+-] WSPACE: [ \\n\\r\\t]+
Grammar. The formal grammar for addresses is given below:
address := name [ SLASH subject ] [ ";" options ] name := ( part | quoted )+ subject := ( part | quoted | SLASH )* quoted := STRING / ESC part := LBRACE / RBRACE / COLON / COMMA / NUMBER / ID / SYM options := map map := "{" ( keyval ( "," keyval )* )? "}" keyval "= ID ":" value value := NUMBER / STRING / ID / map / list list := "[" ( value ( "," value )* )? "]"
Address String Options. The address string options map supports the following parameters:
<name> [ / <subject> ] ; { create: always | sender | receiver | never, delete: always | sender | receiver | never, assert: always | sender | receiver | never, mode: browse | consume, node: { type: queue | topic, durable: True | False, x-declare: { ... <declare-overrides> ... }, x-bindings: [<binding_1>, ... <binding_n>] }, link: { name: <link-name>, durable: True | False, reliability: unreliable | at-most-once | at-least-once | exactly-once, x-declare: { ... <declare-overrides> ... }, x-bindings: [<binding_1>, ... <binding_n>], x-subscribe: { ... <subscribe-overrides> ... } } }
Create, Delete, and Assert Policies
The create, delete, and assert policies specify who should perfom the associated action:
always: the action is performed by any messaging client
sender: the action is only performed by a sender
receiver: the action is only performed by a receiver
never: the action is never performed (this is the default)
The node-type is one of:
topic: in the AMQP 0-10 mapping, a topic node defaults to the topic exchange, x-declare may be used to specify other exchange types
queue: this is the default node-type
[2] In the programs we have just seen, we used
amq.topic as the default address if none is
passed in. This is the name of a standard exchange that always
exists on an AMQP 0-10 messaging broker.
[3] The terms queue and topic here were chosen to align with their meaning in JMS. These two addressing 'patterns', queue and topic, are sometimes refered as point-to-point and publish-subscribe. AMQP 0-10 has an exchange type called a topic exchange. When the term topic occurs alone, it refers to a Messaging API topic, not the topic exchange.
[4] There are exceptions to this rule; for instance,
a receiver can use
browse mode, which leaves
messages on the queue for other receivers to
[5] The AMQP 0-10 implementation is the only one that currently exists.
[6] In AMQP 0-10, messages are sent to exchanges, and read from queues. The Messaging API also allows a sender to send messages to a queue; internally, Qpid implements this by sending the message to the default exchange, with the name of the queue as the routing key. The Messaging API also allows a receiver to receive messages from a topic; internally, Qpid implements this by setting up a private subscription queue for the receiver and binding the subscription queue to the exchange that corresponds to the topic.
[7] Currently, the C++, Python, and .NET C# implementations of drain and spout have slightly different options. This tutorial uses the C++ implementation. The options will be reconciled in the near future.
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The sheriff's office said the blast occurred in the town of Gillett, and confirmed that a 32-year old man from Gonzales was flown to San Antonio Military Medical Center for treatment for burns to his arms and face. The man was flown out by Methodist Aircare after firefighters and EMS arrived at the scene, according to Karnes County Sheriff Dwayne Villanueva.
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The plant was engulfed in flames and lit up the still dark sky when sheriff's deputies and firefighters arrived on scene, Villanueva said. Firefighters from Kenedy, Gillett, Karnes City and Nixon/Smiley responded to the blast to help contain the scene. County officials estimate about 60 personnel were on scene to help contain the blast's aftermath.
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the analysis of trillions of pieces of data to find a needle of insight in a haystack of noise — is a huge business. I recently spoke with the chief executive officer of a Lexington company with the potential to play a big role in a piece of that market.
Back in June, I wrote, "Will Worcester Miss the $64 Billion Big Data Opportunity?" and concluded that it had a shot at getting its share. John Partridge, the president and CEO of Tokutek Inc. — a Lexington company founded in 2006 that makes databases run faster — read the article and contacted me.
A database is a piece of computer software that stores data. You could think of it as a spreadsheet on steroids, because it must be able to store and retrieve enormous quantities of data very quickly. For example, imagine all the point-of-sale terminals at the 8,500 Wal-Mart stores around the world as they process customers who are waiting to pay for their goods. If they use a credit or debit card, Wal-Mart has to decide whether each customer's card is valid and make a decision in seconds.
Without getting into all the details of how that works, suffice it to say that the terminal through which you swipe your card has to take the information on the card's magnetic stripe, send it through several participants — such as a payment gateway, a processor and a credit card interchange — before ultimately getting to the computer of the bank that issued your card to check whether the account information on that stripe matches its records, and whether you have enough money or credit in your account.
It will then send back a message alerting the cashier to either accept the card or ask the customer to use another one or pay in cash. And to do that, the bank's computer must look up your information in a database that probably contains the records of millions of other cards. Every transaction changes the balance in your account, and as the bank gets new accounts or closes existing ones that database must be updated to reflect accurately such changes as they happen.
And that means that if a database can do all that changing more quickly the businesses that use them will be able to operate more efficiently and earn higher profits.
So it should come as no surprise that if a company came along with a better way to manage databases it would interest the companies that use them. And that is what Mr. Partridge claims Tokutek's database can do — running "16 times faster than conventional databases." Moreover, he argues that the company's product's "value story rests on three legs: Performance advantages, greater agility, and cost savings."
Mr. Partridge likes what he calls "start-ups based on algorithms." The reason is pretty clear — if the algorithm is better than its competitors and it works on a big problem then the company that operates that algorithm will be quite successful. A few examples are Google, which was built on advanced search algorithms, and RSA, a company that commercialized new encryption algorithms for security.
Mr. Partridge believes that Tokutek's algorithm — so-called Fractal Tree indexing technology — is "the first algorithm-based breakthrough in the database world in 40 years." He believes that Tokutek's Fractal Tree indexing is helping organizations analyze big data more efficiently because of its ability to improve database efficiency thanks to a "faster database insertion speed, quicker input/output performance, operational agility, and data compression."
So far Tokutek has signed contracts with no fewer than 12 companies, including Intent Media and Limelight Networks that use its TokuDB, "a high-performance database storage engine" that runs on two kinds of databases — MySQL and MariaDB. TokuDB allows these databases to add more data, to improve speed of response to questions of the database, and to reduce the amount of data that needs to be stored and transmitted through excellent compression.
Mr. Partridge brings an impressive r�sum� to the task of building Tokutek. He has at least 20 years of experience in the software industry as a developer, investor and entrepreneur. He joined Tokutek from StreamBase Systems, which he co-founded with database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker. His first job was as a Microsoft software developer, where he co-authored the first version of Excel.
He was later a venture capitalist for six years at Accel Partners and the Summit Accelerator Fund, where he invested in early stage Internet infrastructure and enterprise software companies. And he has a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics/computer science from Harvard and a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford Business School.
Tokutek's initial market is relatively small. He estimates that the opportunity for MySQL is "in the hundreds of millions of dollars." Tokutek charges clients based on the amount of data. For example, a terabyte (a trillion digital words) goes for $25,000 a year. But Tokutek's algorithms can be applied to virtually all databases, a $20 billion opportunity.
And Mr. Partridge has 15 people in three offices — Lexington, New York City and Seattle — with capital from Galileo Partners. His goal is to use these resources to expand Tokutek by applying its indexing technology to more different kinds of databases.
If Tokutek finds its way into Wal-Mart that may mean you can get through the checkout process much faster.
Peter Cohan of Marlboro heads a management consulting and venture capital firm, teaches business strategy, and is the author of 10 books. His column runs Sundays and Wednesdays on telegram.com. His email address is at email@example.com.


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This is a mixture of manuscript and transcript of my keynote/closing lecture at Digital Preservation 2014, July 23rd in Washington, DC, held by the Library of Congress.
This is a mixture of manuscript and transcript of my keynote/closing lecture at Digital Preservation 2014, July 23rd in Washington, DC, held by the Library of Congress.
18 years of being net artist were 18 years of
explaining difference in between net art and web art
explaining difference in between net.art and net art
removing the dot from net.artist
being called media artist
being mixed up with the austrian artist Lia
being called cyberfeminist
getting to know that i'm in a show from vanity search
getting requests to send screenshots in 300 DPI
refusing to show the work offline
refusing to show the work without address bar
rejecting Internet Explorer (and later Safari)
"I Have a Website." JPEG version of screenshot from One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Photo Op.
One year ago, a system developed by artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied began taking screenshots of now-defunct GeoCities webpages from the late 1990s as they would appear on hardware and software from that time. Every twenty minutes, a new screenshot is automatically uploaded to their Tumblr, One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Photo Op. Friday marked the one-year anniversary of the project; to celebrate, Espenschied restored the three most reblogged and liked home pages posted there, as tracked by Lialina. This article covers the why and how of this restoration.
It may seem strange to say this about the likes of "Cute Boy Site" or "Divorced Dads Page," but the remains of the GeoCities web hosting service are a vital part of our cultural legacy. In its dial-up heyday, GeoCities was where non-specialist internet users made their first-ever webpages. Today, it exists as a vast, if partial, repository of the anxieties, hopes, and dreams of those creators, and offers a snapshot of the early popular usage of a now-ubiquitous cultural form, the webpage.
Courtesy grouphab.it and Harm van den Dorpel.
An extended and altered version of this text will be published in... You Are Here: Looking at After the Internet (Cornerhouse Books 2014), edited by Omar Kholeif.
Earlier this month, Rhizome presented a panel discussion at the ICA in London titled "Post-Net Aesthetics." Following in the wake of prior panels (titled "Net Aesthetics 2.0") which were organized by Rhizome in 2006 and 2008, this edition was precipitated by the recent discussion of postinternet practices by a number of art institutions and magazines, including Frieze. We invited a longtime Rhizome collaborator, critic and curator Karen Archey, to chair and organize the panel, and what emerged was a wide-ranging and extremely generative conversation in which participants began to articulate some of the shifts they'd seen in artistic practice in recent years, while critiquing those shifts and their framing as "postinternet."
Summer (2013). Olia Lialina. Screenshot of animation comprising individual GIF images displayed across multiple websites.
In a 2006 interview with Valeska Buehrer, artist Olia Lialina observed that her early web-based works, particularly My Boyfriend Came Back from the War, have been irrevocably changed by the accelerating speed of the internet.
Though the work is still as it was: same files, same address, links -- it is now more like a documentation of itself. Because everything else changed. First of all connection speed. I could now click through my work in one minute. Probably, I could do it even faster...if there is no delay in between phrases, no waiting for images, no Jpeg "progressive scan" loading -- the tenseness of the conversation is lost.
It wasn't that Lialina was inspired by the creative possibilities of the slow-to-load early web (she recalls being as frustrated as any user); it was that the work functioned within a specific technological context. As the context has changed, so has the experience of the work.
Three important contemporary web sites, recreated with technology and spirit of late 1997, according to our memories.
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Manchester United manager David Moyes is struggling to make an immediate impact in his first season in charge.
It's not easy taking over from one of the greatest managers in football history, but David Moyes has been assured that one trophy in his debut season at Manchester United will be considered a success.
So says his predecessor Alex Ferguson, a man who waited more than three years for his first silverware at Old Trafford before rewriting the record books.
United's hopes of a 21st English title seem faint after Saturday's 1-1 draw at home to Southampton, a result which left Moyes' men eight points behind leader Arsenal after only eight matches.
However, Ferguson — whose reign ended with a 13th Premier League crown last season — urged fans to be patient after a difficult start to this campaign.
"For David, winning a trophy would be a fantastic achievement," the 71-year-old told the club's MUTV channel in an interview aired Saturday.
"No matter what it is — the League Cup, FA Cup, European Cup or Premier League. We've always had priorities obviously, and David is aware of that, but I hope he achieves it.
"He has great support at the club. The most important person in the club is the manager and that must always be sacrosanct. In fairness, the club have always stuck by that rigid belief."
Moyes, who did win the pre-season Community Shield match, was boosted ahead of the Southampton match when teen sensation Adnan Januzaj signed a new five-year contract.
The 18-year-old, who underlined his status before the international break as one of the game's hottest young prospects with two goals in his first EPL start, was again to the fore as United dominated the first half.
Januzaj sent Wayne Rooney clear on goal and, although the England striker's shot was saved by Artur Boruc, Robin van Persie fired home from the rebound.
Januzaj was also denied by Boruc, and another well-timed pass found Danny Welbeck — but the forward could not set up Rooney for the second.
"We have been trying to get him signed for quite a few months, not just in my time," Moyes said of the Brussels-born winger.
"He's an exceptionally talented player. He has not looked out of place in the team. He has created goals and been part of some of our best passing movements."
However, United's defensive frailties were once again exposed as Adam Lallana diverted in a scrambled shot from Dejan Lovren in the 89th minute to deny Moyes successive wins for the first time since joining from Everton.
"We should probably have put the game to bed earlier," Moyes said. "We hit the bar and had a couple of other opportunities.
"It was a mixed game at times, but we still had those chances that I was hoping we would finish off."
By contrast, Arsenal romped to a comprehensive 4-1 win at home to Norwich that put Arsene Wenger's team two points clear of Chelsea and Liverpool.
Record signing Mesut Ozil scored twice after Jack Wilshere's opener, and fellow midfielder Aaron Ramsey added his ninth goal in all competitions this season.
Chelsea came from behind to beat promoted Cardiff 4-1, as former African player of the year Samuel Eto'o scored his first goal for the London side since joining from Russia's Anzhi Makhachkala in August.
However, the Cameroon striker's cheeky dispossession of David Marshall when the visiting keeper bounced the ball — which allowed Eden Hazard to equalize with the first of his two goals — left Cardiff boss Malky Mackay fuming.
"I did go in to ask for clarification of the ruling and what the referee and linesman saw," he said.
"The explanation leaves me really disappointed — they felt the goalkeeper dropped the ball. My goalkeeper bounced the ball. He saw Samuel Eto'o standing next to him and he bounced the ball."
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho refused to attend his press conference after being sent to the stands in the second half after protesting about Cardiff's alleged time-wasting.
Eto'o had put Chelsea ahead by that stage, while Oscar and Hazard wrapped it up after Mourinho's dugout exit.
Liverpool briefly went top after being held 2-2 by 10-man Newcastle in Saturday's early match, with striker Daniel Sturridge heading a 72nd-minute equalizer.
The home side twice led, through Yohan Cabaye and Paul Dummett, despite having Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa sent off for a foul on Luis Suarez — from which Steven Gerrard netted a penalty for Liverpool's first leveler.
In the late match, Manchester City won away for the first time this season, beating West Ham 3-1 thanks to a double from Sergio Aguero to move above Southampton into fourth place.
Sixth-placed Everton joined Saints on 15 points with a 2-1 win at home to promoted Hull, while Swansea crushed Sunderland 4-0 to give new manager Gus Poyet a losing start to his tenure at the EPL's bottom club, and there was a 0-0 stalemate between Stoke and West Brom.


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Mr. Speaker, during the second world war, 422 Canadian firefighters volunteered to assist their British allies in helping save lives on the home front. They were known as Team Mitzi.
Today, a senior team of Canadian firefighters is attending services at St. Paul's Cathedral, unveiling the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial. The memorial includes the names of three Canadians: J.S. Coull, A. Lapierre and L.E. Woodhead. These men made the ultimate sacrifice fighting fires during the darkest days of the London blitz.
The monument erected today will ensure that their service and the 1,000 other firefighters who died alongside them are never forgotten.
Canadian firefighters put their lives on the line every day. Today we pay tribute to a proud moment in the history of Canadian firefighting. I encourage all Canadians to take a moment of silence and remember the sacrifice of the brave men of Team Mitzi.


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Uniontown man shot in back while driving
Shooting marks 2nd in less than 48 hours in Uniontown
Police in Uniontown are investigating a shooting that wounded a man as he drove down the street.
Investigators say the victim was traveling near the intersection of Coolspring Road and Mifflin Street, in Fayette County, when someone fired at his car.
"I heard a bunch of what sounded like firecrackers last night. I didn't know there was gunshots, I just thought it was firecrackers, so I didn't pay attention to it any more," said Mark David, who lives nearby.
The bullets passed through the car and hit the driver, but he was able to call for help and was taken to a hospital.
SLIDESHOW: Photos of the shot-up car
The shooting comes just less than 48 hours after Monday night's shooting on nearby Farragut Street. One man was shot three times in the back and was treated and released from a Pittsburgh hospital.
Police do not have suspects in either case and are working to see if the shootings are connected.
"The parallel between the two, we're not sure. We can't prove that. There are some similarities and some common names and people involved. We would like to just solve either case to prove they're related," said Uniontown police Lt. Tom Kolencik.
Anyone with information on either shooting can remain anonymous and is being asked to call Uniontown police.


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PASADENA, Texas – While most people were pulling up the covers, a group in Pasadena were pulling on their running shoes for a cure.
For the Garcia family and their friends, the 4:30 a.m. run for breast cancer awareness was a very personal one.
Gerry Garcia's wife of ten years, Ana, was 30-years-old when she was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer, a very rare and aggressive cancer that she battled for five years.
"Breast cancer awareness. Most people think it's someone else's problem," said Garcia.
With a police escort, four runners dressed in pink wanted to honor Garcia's wife and perhaps raise some money in the process. They ran 30 miles, from the medical center to the place where Ana was buried in Pasadena.
"I wanted to do something big. Something different," said Daniel Barron, Ana Garcia's brother.
"She's our number one motivation. We thought about the pain and the struggle she went through of breast cancer. I thought a 30 mile run is nothing compared to what she went through," said Barron.
October 1 would have been Ana's 38th birthday.
This race was a precursor to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on Saturday, October 6. Local 2's Khambrel Marshall will emcee the event.


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On a recent episode of Remarkable Radio WCKG AM/FM Chicago with Mark Imperial, Brent Wilk, Broker Owner of Wilk Real Estate, discussed Buyer and Seller Tips In A Seller's Market.
According to Wilk, we are currently experiencing a Seller's Real Estate Market.
Wilk, said "So what you're seeing is it's actually a seller's market at this time. There's a surplus of buyers out there but with a lack of inventory you're going to end up running into higher priced homes. You're going to run into sellers that may end up sticking a little bit firm with pricing. So the only challenge that you really have is making sure that you do get a good enough deal and that the appraisal comes in for value".
Wilk recently inked a deal to sponsor brand-new, one-of-a-kind Home Listing Video pages on YouTube and Facebook titled "Naperville Living". This is now Naperville's only seller and buyer resource devoted entirely to daily updates of Home Listing Video. Home sellers and buyers both benefit by getting connected through the one-of-a-kind platform. Because video has always been the preferred way to showcase a home listing, "Naperville Living" was created to help busy Agents by creating and promoting listing videos for every home available in that city for them. The publishing team adds video listings 7-days a week.
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When host Mark Imperial asked the cause of the current Seller's Market Wilk answered, "Well, what you actually have is, we went through a pretty much a demise of the real estate market just less than a decade ago. You've got a couple of factors now, over a five year period, the U.S. is supposed to be building on average about 3 million new construction homes a year. They were building anywhere between 500 to 700 thousand annually. So what you're going to end up seeing could be four or five million homes a year (short) for the actual demand for buyers. People are living longer, and there are a lot of people who are still at that point where they think the housing crisis is still going on, and they have the fear that they're not going to sell for a profit. So what you actually have is, you tie a couple of those factors, and you're going to end up running into a marketplace where eventually it'll even out, but at this time, what you're going to end up seeing is a little bit of a lack of inventory at this time".
During the Interview Wilk shared how he advises buyers in this current market, explaining, "Well first and foremost is I'm going to give them a consultation on basically being prepared, for once we do find the right house, the steps to end up taking. A lot of my clients that I'm I'm dealing with right now, I've seen people where they've lost homes two, three, four, and five times because either they've delayed their offer or they've come in low with the pricing. Those days unfortunately are workable right now, so the one thing you have to do, is if you're going to tour a home and you really like the property, it's almost at that point of where you actually react first and write the offer, and think about it afterwards because you do have in the State of Illinois, you have a five day attorney and inspection review period. If you end up basically having cold feet, you can always end up having money refunded back to you. That would be your earnest money".
Brent Wilk is the Broker Owner of Wilk Real Estate and has been a Realtor for over 14 years, having personally sold over 1,100 homes, with over 300 of these homes in the past two years. This earned Brent the honor of being named in the Top 1% in Sales by the Chicago Association of Realtors in 2014 and 2015. In addition, in the State of Illinois, Brent ranked 67th out of over 37,000 agents with sales over $43 Million.
The interview concluded with Wilk saying "Naperville is a very hot market right now. You've actually seen a significant increase in pricing and percentage in growth. You're almost getting to the point of being landlocked, unfortunately, with regard to new construction. There still is, and you're going to see more custom construction now with builders. But at the same time as this, the outlying areas are still booming. The markets are really, really good when it comes to the sellers as well, and the buyers are getting a very good deal. We're almost at that pricing back in 2003, 2004, just before the collapse when markets were were appreciating in almost double digits for a two to three year period. That's what we're seeing".
To listen to the full interview on Remarkable Radio WCKG AM/FM Chicago, visit https://www.wckg.com/remarkableradio/brent-wilk/.
To learn more about Brent Wilk, please visit http://wilkrealestatehomes.com/.
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The American waistline isn't the only thing that's got a growing problem. Our pudgy pets are packing it on as well — studies suggest that up to 60 percent of dogs and cats are obese or overweight. Comparatively speaking, they're in worse shape than we are; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 35 percent of human Americans are obese as compared to our pudgy pets.
To address this weighty problem, the nation's first obesity clinic geared especially for our animal companions has opened its door.
Created by the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, The Tufts' Veterinary Obesity Clinic will tap the strengths of the Cummings School's nutrition service, a 15-year-old clinical, teaching and research service located at its Grafton, Mass., Foster Hospital for Small Animals — one of the nation's busiest teaching hospitals.
Obesity can be a complicated topic for pet owners, the Cummings School says. Although dogs and cats are not prone to coronary artery disease — a leading killer of humans and a common side effect of human obesity — being overweight can lead to complications such as diabetes, orthopedic problems and respiratory complications, as well as reduced quality of life and life expectancy.
The clinic, which aims to see more than 600 clients per year by 2015, will focus on three areas: providing effective weight-loss programs for pets deemed overweight or obese, especially hard-to-manage cases and pets with multiple medical conditions; educating veterinary professionals and the public on how to prevent, identify and combat pet obesity; and conducting state-of-the art clinical research regarding optimal methods for pet obesity treatment and prevention.
The clinic will have three board-certified clinical nutritionists on staff under the supervision of Deborah E. Linder, a graduate of the Cummings School's Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program and its two-year residency in clinical nutrition.
"By employing sound, research-proven methods, Tufts' Veterinary Obesity Clinic will help owners achieve safe and effective weight loss for their pets," said Linder. "While the common perception leans toward overweight pets being happy, research has proven otherwise, and we hope to effect change in the obesity epidemic among companion animals."
The clinic may also provide some collateral benefits for the national girth. A 2006 study conducted at Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Wellness Institute suggested that overweight pets can encourage overweight people to exercise with them and lose weight simultaneously.


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After Ever After: Have you ever wondered what happened to all the Disney princesses after they got their supposedly happy endings? Mystery solved with this catchy musical number!
Pugs in a Bathtub: This trio of pug puppies getting a bath is the cutest thing you'll see all week — and possibly ever. Stay tuned for the part where they get blow-dried, which really tips it over the edge of "awwwwww."
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Jenna Fischer Talks the End of The Office: With The Office coming to an end after nine seasons, Jay Leno talks to star Jenna Fischer about the final days on set. What will she miss the most? And what prop did she (accidentally) take as a souvenir? Check out her interview for answers to these burning questions and more.
News Anchor's On-Air Proposal: Points to this groom-to-be in Huntsville, Ala., who proposed to his girlfriend, news anchor Jillian Pavlica, live on the air after slipping a secret message into her teleprompter. Watch her stunned reaction.
TV Scorecard: What's renewed? What's canceled?
No More Mr. Ice (Cream) Guy: Sports analysts were all over Tuesday night's NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and Orlando Magic — but they weren't focused on dissecting what was happening on the court. Rather, everyone's attention was turned toward the JumboTron for a few minutes, where a male spectator repeatedly refused to share his large ice cream cone with his female companion. Does she eventually get a bite?! Tune in to find out:
Justin Timberlake Medley: Justin Timberlake closed out his week-long residency on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with a medley of some of his greatest hits, including "Cry Me a River" and "Like I Love You." What, no "Bye, Bye, Bye"?


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Teen charged after posting rumor of planned shooting at school
Girl made post "to see what would happen," police say
A 15-year-old girl has been charged in connection with a Facebook post that sparked concerns from parents and students at Glen Este High School.
Union Township police said that Thursday afternoon, they started getting reports from parents of Glen Este students that there were posts on Facebook rumoring there was going to be "shooting" at the school on Friday.
After investigating the reports and making plans if such an event occurred, the police department arrested a 15-year-old girl for inducing panic and tampering with evidence.
Police said the girl made the post "to see what would happen."
Police said the girl's actions caused hundreds of phone calls to the police department from concerned parents, and caused other parents to keep their children out of school for the day.
The girl attempted to destroy evidence prior to the police contacting her, investigators.
There were also rumors of police finding a weapon at the school. Police said those rumors were unfounded.
NKY teens charged with disorderly conduct
Kentucky State Police said two students, both 15, were charged with Disorderly Conduct Thursday at Owen County High School.
One student alarmed other students after declaring an intruder was inside the school, while the second student was charged after making comments that everyone in the school was in danger, troopers said.
Troopers said neither student made direct threats or had information about known threats. Both were cited after making comments for the purposes of creating public alarm.


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Fatai, who had come to the WAEC office to help a relative submit some documents, had stepped out of the elevator when the doors opened midway on the eight floor, thinking he had reached its destination. Unfortunately he stepped out into open space and plunged to his death. The elevator wasn't functioning well and there was no notice to warn people.
Saw on TV this evening as his mangled body was being removed from the building...his arms, legs almost detached from his body. WAEC officials have expressed regret over his death but according to reports, the family of the deceased have taken the matter to the police and might be suing WAEC for wrongful death.